The explosion happened at the Miyazaki Airport ... by an American 500-pound bomb that was likely dropped during a World War ...

On October 2, a World War II device exploded near the runway at the airport in Miyazaki, Japan, causing the cancellation of 87 flights. The bomb, buried from an Allied bombing raid, was defused by ...

Less than a month later, two bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, bringing about the end of World War II. No nuclear bombs have been used as weapons since the ...

A few days before the nuclear explosions at Hiroshima and Nagasaki ... factories from military to consumer production after the war. Business would be good, he predicted, due to "a great backlog ...

A fortune teller read his palm and told him that he had a long lifeline and would survive the war unscathed. On the battlefield in Europe, he thought about that prophecy whenever he had a close call ...

The British HMS Trooper submarine was lost in 1943 with 64 men on board. A Greek-based underwater recovery team located the submarine 81 years later, finding it torn into three sections by a German ...

Hundreds of thousands of bombs were dropped on Britain during World War ... for development, the 2,200lb (1,000kg) German bomb was blown up on Saturday in a controlled explosion, leaving a crater ...

And there were all kinds of jobs.” World War II utterly transformed Mobile and its economy. The explosion began in the late 1930s, when local companies such as Alcoa began producing war materiel ...

A suspected attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels saw multiple explosions strike near a vessel traveling through the Red Sea on Tuesday, though no damage was immediately reported by the ship, authorities ...

I, of course, knew that it was going to be a sort of fresh take on a World War II British epic, but I didn't know exactly ...

a World War II veteran who was one of the last surviving ... About 11:30 p.m., he and his equipment were rocked by an explosion that broke his leg, he said. He received a Purple Heart in 1989.